Food - where does it come from and what do we "really" experience when we eat? Meet a young man who has designed a way to enhance that experience, taking us all the way back to the food source. But do the delicious food sensations mask a terrible secret? This short story is part of a series of stories showcasing the choices we humans make as we come to grapple with our vicious and violent, kind and caring, eminently changeable nature.
West Atlantis, 2417 The seas are dry; the continents have become great dust bowls. Humanity has survived by settling on the sea beds, protected by a system of great earthen berms left behind by previous generations. Not only do the levees provide protection from the continental winds, they have also been repurposed into highways for a population that commutes from the sprawling suburbs to the town of West Atlantis. Darren Dwyer is a 20-year-old under-achiever grappling with the reality of post high school workaday existence. Lori Fitz-Palin is starting her junior year at Sargasso State. A chance encounter leads to romance and draws them into a subversive plot with unknown repercussions.
The "War Between the Sexes" is over . . . the men won. There have been casualties. There have been scars. There have been secrets . . . Enter Forrest Baxter: The "mystery man." Is he just acting weird? Or has he stumbled onto a real mystery? Follow Forrest as he unwinds the truth of his strange alternate world, rediscovering love along the way.
Once a writer, always a writer . . ." What would you do if you came back as a ghost? You could finally write that novel . . . Meet Arnold Showalter, ghost. At night, Arnold haunts the magnificent underground Mystic Caverns of Appalachia. But during the day, Arnold becomes The Ghost Writer, the first "literary voice from beyond the grave." Yet before Arnold can capitalize on his fame, he must first exorcise the "ghosts" of his own past. And it is easy to become bitter when one is dead . . . Fortunately, Arnold's world is rocked when he meets Clarisse, a 15-year-old fatality of a car accident. Her fresh outlook and spunky energy awaken Arnold to the real possibilities of post-life existence. Clarisse inspires a quest that takes Arnold to the farthest reaches of the universe, and deep within himself.
It's not easy being a ghost. Especially when you have a wife and kid and you are trying to hold down a job. Meet Thad Springer, a "ghost cop" who investigates paranormal activities committed by fellow ghosts. In the course of his latest case, which also involves his precocious young son, he may have uncovered the secrets of the universe. Unfortunately, Thad's employer, the dynastic Orpheum Corporation, has other plans for them. Yet in its haste to control man's destiny, the corporation may have overlooked some fundamental truths. Follow Thad as he unravels the plot and finds out more about himself, his son, his wife, and what it is about Life that is really worth living. The Ghost Cop is a science fiction epic that takes the reader as far outward as it does inward. This book is a companion piece to The Ghost Writer but ownership of the earlier book is not a prerequisite.
The "War Between the Sexes" is over . . . the men won. There have been casualties. There have been scars. There have been secrets . . . Enter Forrest Baxter: The "mystery man." Is he just acting weird? Or has he stumbled onto a real mystery? Follow Forrest as he unwinds the truth of his strange alternate world, rediscovering love along the way.
Food - where does it come from and what do we "really" experience when we eat? Meet a young man who has designed a way to enhance that experience, taking us all the way back to the food source. But do the delicious food sensations mask a terrible secret? This short story is part of a series of stories showcasing the choices we humans make as we come to grapple with our vicious and violent, kind and caring, eminently changeable nature.
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